Does your website look different when it's 'live' compared to when you're logged into Wordpress?
This rather annoying bug happened to me, where everything looked perfectly fine when I was logged into Wordpress Admin, but when I viewed it on another browser, the formatting was completely messed up.
To recap on the issue:
Problem: Website formatting messed up when viewing on browser, but everything looks fine when logged into Wordpress
I contacted SiteSupport repeatedly in desperation, but they advised me to seek advice from the theme developers as this was likely an internal issue.
For me, the navigation header bar on my website was reverting to an older state, with random bits of text scattered around the navbar, rendering my navigation system basically useless. But my menu settings on Wordpress said that my formatting was okay! I was dumbfounded.
I tried everything, from repeatedly clearing the cache to uninstalling all my additional unnecessary plugins (some websites said to deactivate plugins that 'minify' the css/html/js so I tried that too) but this was all to no avail.
I resorted to messing around with my settings to (hopefully) find a solution to my problem, or at least see what exactly was causing this disparity. After a few days of meddling with the settings and inspecting code, I managed to fix my problem!
For me, the solution lay with, simply, deleting the menu and remaking it (or you could unassign the old, problematic menu from the 'primary menu' and reassign the newly created menu to 'primary menu' instead.
It really was basically as easy as 'turning it off and turning it back on again'!
Not sure exactly the reasons behind this, but I believe it was due to some technical error within Wordpress itself. Through trial and error (and a bit of sheer dumb luck) I managed to rectify this issue!
So to those out there facing technical difficulties (or otherwise) do NOT give up!
No matter what obstacles Wordpress (or life) may be throwing at you right now, you have the strength to get past it!
PS: For technical errors, I'd suggest that you seek assistance from SiteSupport and the community (and the Internet), or you could ask me; I'd try my very best to help!
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Yes, that can be a problem. Here is a tool to check your site on all browsers and is free. Really cool tool to check your site in all Browsers It won't cure your problem but you can look and see what everyone else is seeing.
Damo
I solve 95% of the ISSUES I run into myself!
That way I learn the WHY and HOW and will not forget the next time!
Only once I contacted SITE Support and they solved it in no time!
Sometimes I look for help in the community, and sometimes google is my best friend!
Take care!
Tom
Hey Tom!
I most wholeheartedly agree! Learning to solve these issues yourself help learn the little tricks of the trade, which will help you out immensely in the long run!
Manika
Thanks Mike,
Next time this happens and I can't solve it, SiteSupport will definitely be my number 1 go-to resource.
Hi Manika; That sounds like the problem I told you about with my site. I have reworked my menu. I had to because when I trash a post it actually removes the about Scott title from the Menu. And then , I have to go back to menu settings and re-enter that title to the menu. Then , when I add the actual post, it goes where it is supposed to go, but it goes in the way you saw it.
I might have a solution but my next step will be to go to site support to see if they can insert the post the way it is supposed to look. Thank you for your suggestion Scott
Hey Scott!
Thanks for reading; I've replied to your question in the other thread on my profile! Hopefully it helps solve your issues :)
Manika
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Glad you got it sorted out Manika.
Have a great day!
David
Thanks for the comment David,
Was a pain but glad it worked out in the end as well.
Manika